I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.